Over recent years several examples of natural ribosomally synthesized circular proteins from a diverse range of organisms have been discovered. They are special molecules, whose precursors must be posttranslationally modified to join the N to C termini with a head-to-tail peptide bond. This feature appears to have a range of potential advantages over their linear counterparts, since they are le...

SynthesizedTextures represent continuous-tone images with a small set of vectors and color profiles. This representation is not only efficient in terms of compression ratio but also serve as the basis of photorealistic animations in AFX. Unlike standard synthetic texture techniques, the SynthesizedTexture imaging starts with analysis of photorealistic images or video sequences and conversion to...

The allocation and disposal of memory is a ubiquitous operation in most programs. Rarely do programmers concern themselves with details of memory allocators; most assume that memory allocators provided by the system perform well. Yet, in some applications, programmers use domain-specific knowledge in an attempt to improve the speed or memory utilization of memory allocators. In this paper, we d...

Binary Decision Diagrams present an efficient way of modeling digital systems for simulation purposes. In order to take into account the need of representing faults directly in BDDs for fault simulation and test generation a special class of BDDs, refered to as structurally synthesized BDDs is used in the paper. It is shown that the efficiency of simulation using SSBDD highly depends on the dis...

Studies of sound symbolism have shown that people can associate sound and meaning in consistent ways when presented with maximally contrastive stimulus pairs of nonwords such as bouba/kiki (rounded/sharp) or mil/mal (small/big). Recent work has shown the effect extends to antonymic words from natural languages and has proposed a role for shared cross-modal correspondences in biasing formto-mean...

Proopiomelanocortin (POMC), the precursor for melanotropic, corticotropic, and opioid peptides such as a-melanocytestimulating hormone (aMSH), ACTH, and other related peptides, was originally identified as a product of the pituitary gland. However, recent evidence shows that POMC products can also be produced by nonpituitary tissues. Because keratinocytes, the major constituent of the epidermis...

With the ultimate aim of creating a knowledge based speech understanding system, we have set up a conceptual framework named NEBULA. In this paper we briefly describe some of the components of this framework and also report on some experiments where we use a production component for generating reference data for the recognition. The production component in the form of a speech synthesis system ...

Like natural diamonds, synthetic diamonds can be produced in a variety of grades, depending on growth conditions. High growth rates can be realized with chemical vapor deposition, but the diamond produced is often not clear because of nitrogen deposits that render the crystals absorptive over the infrared-toultraviolet spectrum, resulting in crystals that appear gray or brown. To reduce absorpt...